Bright

Will Smith's Netflix blockbuster Bright is stunning in its audacity—and its stupidity.

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Netflix plants a flag in the ground with the Will Smith fantasy-action film, and things can only go up from here.

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Bright is a fantasy buddy-cop movie that fails both genres.

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Will Smith is away with the fairies in Netflix's overcooked genre mash-up.

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Bright seeks a balance it never strikes. It's a boldly written and brazenly directed film, and while that kind of confidence has both merit and a place in Hollywood, it just doesn't translate well here.

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In an alternate Los Angeles where fantasy creatures are a fact of life, Detective Ward (Will Smith) and his orc partner Jakoby (Joel Edgerton) respond to a call, only to discover a terrified elf (Lucy Fry) with a magical artefact that practically everyone is willing to kill for.

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The prophecies of this fantastical lore speak to special beings, destiny and fate, and here’s my prediction: not a soul, Orc or otherwise is going to enjoy or understand a lick of the execrable “Bright.”

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You’ll find beatings, shootouts, car crashes, awkward analogies and a measure of buddy badinage in “Bright,” but true enchantment is in short supply.

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This combo of gritty cop procedural and fantasy is a dark, dank, dumb-as-hell mess.

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Netflix has always wanted to compete with the big dogs at the studio, and you can’t name a major studio that doesn’t have an overdone, stupid blockbuster or two on their resume every year. Now Netflix has one too!

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A welter of dissonant intentions, the film fails to seamlessly intertwine its elements of realism and fantasy.

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Joel Edgerton is unrecognizable under makeup as the orc partner of human cop Will Smith in David Ayer's fantasy-based crime flick, a pricey Netflix original.

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Even star’s irrepressible charisma can’t compete with muddy production design, poorly-conceived characters and a profoundly stupid racial metaphor.

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